Wifi problem with repeaters - there was an error connecting

so I'm repeating a motorola gateway's wifi signal with a belkin f5d7132..
with the repeater on .. opperating. and doing its range extending magic, my pc can connect to the network, but my mac throws up an "error connecting to network" message.. "trying again" gets me nowhere.
unplugging the repeater fixes the mac up nicely... it's able to connect directly to the motorola gateway..
when I look at all the wifi connections. it show two instances of the "repeated" signal... two "ian" ssids.. I wonder if this duplicity is messing things up for me and my macbooks attempt at connecting to the repeated wifi.. I linked to a couple screen captures of my motorola and belkin config pages..
the one thing that surprises me, is that the belikin router doesn't have an "entry" in the motorola DHCP list.. I'd think the belkin repeater would have to lease an IP address from the motorola, and that lease would be noted in the motorola's dhcp table.. I'm sure there are different schems for repeating..
anybody successed with this belkin in a mac / pc cross platform environment? any magic settings that I'm missing?
here are links to those two screen captures
router - http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/3950965454ebef30daao.jpg
repeater - http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/395096541cbe4473870o.jpg

Ok. Got it fixed.
For a real fix:
Try trashing the ~/Library/Application Support/Apple/AirPort folder. This should solve the problem this time and next time.
If you are reluctant to do that, log into your 'test' account. (You do have a test account, don't you?)
Do the update from there.
Apparently we have something corrupted in our support directories for the AirPort device.
I first fixed my problem by doing the alternate log in method and found that all 3 of my devices were needing a firmware update but only the Capsule was reporting an update within my own account.

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